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Aaron Sherritt (August 1854 – 26 June 1880) was an associate of the gang of outlaws led by Ned Kelly in Victoria, Australia. Personal life. Aaron Sherritt was born in the Melbourne suburb of Prahran in August 1854, to Irish migrants John and Agnes Ann (née Nesbitt) Sherritt. He was the eldest of 13 children.
Aaron Sherritt Today marks 137 years since the death of Aaron Sherritt at the hands of his best friend Joe Byrne. This event was the trigger for the Kelly Gang’s Glenrowan campaign and would ultimately result in tragedy for most everyone involved.
26 de jun. de 2021 · Aaron Sherritt has been enshrined in Australian folklore as a Judas figure, but what is the truth behind the man who fell from grace and brought about the end of the Kelly Gang?
'Sherritt, Aaron (1855–1880)', Obituaries Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/sherritt-aaron-13571/text24295, accessed 24 April 2024.
All we know for certain is that Ned Kelly intended to derail a train full of police and trackers at Glenrowan, and an event on a Saturday night at the hut of Aaron Sherritt – a sympathiser who the gang had reason to believe had been assisting police – was to provide a lure for a special police train.
Aaron Sherritt (August 1854 - 26 June 1880) was a close friend of Joe Byrne and later Ned Kelly. His murder in 1880 was the first of the actions that led to the Kelly Gang's final shoot out with the police at Glenrowan. Sherritt lived about three miles from Byrne, in the Woolshed Valley, near Beechworth, Victoria.
He shot his erstwhile friend, Aaron Sherritt, on 26 June 1880. Byrne was shot in the ‘siege of Glenrowan’ on 28 June 1880, and bled to death in the hotel. While Dan Kelly’s and Steve Hart’s bodies burned, his was dragged out before fire took hold of the building.
